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Hardwicke, who earned the director's award for the film at Sundance, became acquainted with Reed when she briefly dated Reed's divorced father
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Hunter plays a divorced mom coping with the stresses of trying to raise a family single-handedly aspx?c=327832 class="art">Catherine Hardwicke, a production designer turned filmmaker Most studios didn't want to touch the provocative material Production got under way last year, when Reed was 14 She worked for scale, something she has been known to do before despite her status as an Oscar-winning actress for "=/movies/movie Everything is all mixed in the streets and the subways and my neighborhood around New York University "
"Thirteen" is a disturbing yet provocative portrait of what a lot of teens today are thinking, doing, feeling and going through, as seen through the eyes of a teenage girl Eventually the producers found a private funding source and distribution through Fox Searchlight, a specialty film division of 20th Century Fox net/ads/8249/0000008249_000000000000000089886 msn
In 1984, =/celebs/celeb com/i/rt_str-e She performed in the school band and was acting in plays from fifth grade onward
"That was my full initiation into the movies," says Hunter, with a laugh With the encouragement of her parents, particularly her father, she began acting in school plays as a child "It really felt foreign and that was the mark of authenticity," she continues, in her unmistakable Southern drawl "
Rebellion is another aspect of adolescence explored in the film com/i/rt_str-e At 15, during a statewide drama competition, the petite but feisty actress was approached by one of the judges, a director at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre, about joining a repertory company in New York aspx?m=536873 class="art">Thirteen," a harsh, grim look at the experiences of a contemporary urban teenage girl, co-written by the girl herself, she was intrigued gif" alt="" height="13" width="71" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top: 3px"><img id="ctrlRateNews_132205_RTS1" class="ib" onMouseOver="RMOv(this);" onFocus=RMOv(this); onMouseOut="RMOt(this);" onClick="ROC(this);" onKeyPress="ROC(this)" tabIndex=0 pid="ctrlRateNews_132205" src="http://entimg aspx?m=5 class="art">Simone," and the TV series "Once and Again," also was 14 during filming "
Divorced from cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, Hunter lives alone in New York Wood, who previously starred in "=/movies/movie com/i/rt_0 =/celebs/celeb msads "As a teenager, I too had an inside life that I shared with my friends, which is something this movie focuses on overture gif" alt="" height="15" width="16" border="0"><img id="ctrlRateNews_132205_RTS2" class="ib" onMouseOver="RMOv(this);" onFocus=RMOv(this); onMouseOut="RMOt(this);" onClick="ROC(this);" onKeyPress="ROC(this)" tabIndex=0 pid="ctrlRateNews_132205" src="http://entimg "
Hunter thought she would remain a stage actress, but after striking up a friendship with a pair of filmmaking brothers, she changed her mind, she says
Over the years, Hunter has showed her versatility in films from =/celebs/celeb I hope that part of our culture doesn't go away She desperately wants to fit in with the "cool" kids and winds up courting a popular girl named Evie Zamora (Reed, making her film debut) "I loved both involvements," she says aspx?c=303731 class="art">Evan Rachel Wood), is trying to cope with peer pressure at her school
"When I read the script, the thing that nailed it for me was that a few pages into it I stopped reading because I didn't know what they were saying," says the 45-year-old Oscar winner, during a recent stopover here "
Born March 20, 1958, Hunter was raised on a 250-acre farm, the youngest of seven children " Cast opposite =/celebs/celeb "The idea of feeling alienated from your family and friends I think is a byproduct of being alive," she says, tossing back a strand of long blonde hair behind an ear
Hardwicke says Hunter's performance in 1987's "=/movies/movie And she says that Hunter's childlessness "freed her" to play the character without inhibition An aspiring filmmaker, she found a source of inspiration in Reed, who was undergoing some of the situations that play out in the movie "I don't feel out of touch because it's not homogenized there Hunter Seeks Challenges
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"I like New York," she says The two wrote the script together in about eight days and Hardwicke began shopping it around gif" alt="" height="15" width="16" border="0"><img id="ctrlRateNews_132205_RTS4" class="ib" onMouseOver="RMOv(this);" onFocus=RMOv(this); onMouseOut="RMOt(this);" onClick="ROC(this);" onKeyPress="ROC(this)" tabIndex=0 pid="ctrlRateNews_132205" src="http://entimg aspx?m=117873 class="art">Broadcast News," in which she played a successful workaholic, convinced her that Hunter was the right person to play Melanie in "Thirteen com/i/rt_str-e aspx?m=25331 class="art">Blood Simple She didn't say a word in her Oscar-winning "The Piano" performance, in which she played a mute After discovering she can't conceive, she convinces her dedicated ex-con husband (Cage) to steal a baby from a family with quintuplets It's also not segregated The meeting led to a collaboration, first with the stage production of "The Miss Firecracker Contest" (which was later adapted into a film starring Hunter) and then with Hunter's Broadway debut, "Crimes of the Heart msn " "Broadcast News" followed soon after At the time, Reed was 13, and the story is based on her personal experiences in middle school aspx?c=478211 class="art">Nikki Reed, a Southern California high schooler, co-wrote the screenplay two years ago with =/celebs/celeb msn aspx?m=10506 class="art">Crash " The Texas native also wanted to cast a fellow Southerner aspx?c=271595 class="art">Jane Campion's "The Piano," from =/celebs/celeb It's all there for the taking Meanwhile, her daughter, Tracy (=/celebs/celeb Hunter returned to the theater company the following summer before enrolling at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University, where she studied drama msn aspx?m=75566 class="art">Raising Arizona A recovering alcoholic, she earns a meager income from a home-based hairdressing business and is ill equipped to handle the rapid changes that are going on in her 13-year-old's life She is promoting the R-rated drama, which caused a stir at its Sundance Film Festival debut earlier this year aspx?c=279742 class="art">David Cronenberg's "=/movies/movie msn " They then wrote a leading role for her in their next film, a comedy called "=/movies/movie aspx?m=97778 class="art">Always," to =/celebs/celeb "
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Hunter, who grew up in a large, tight-knit family in Conyers, Ga "That's when I was certain that a 13-year-old girl had written this, because she knew it
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